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> 4. I will always be enthusiastic about new volunteers, no> matter howmany times I hear:>> "Hi, I'd like to volunteer."> "Great! What would you like to do?"> "I don't know."> "How about X?"> "I don't want to do *that*.">> Or:>> "Hi, I'd like to volunteer to do Y."> "Great!" 1 month later: "Hey, how's Y going?"> Indeed. If I had a volunteer for every time I'd heard that...

Unfortunately, it seems a lot of the time that volunteers, when asking

Volunteers almost never work out, and you can't use their enthusiasm with a programming project like Pugs to judge their enthusiasm for something really mundane like putting tax records online or setting up a blog they won't be able to post on.

Most of the work for TPF is really dull to most people. That's why there aren't too many people doing it.